X500Standard.com
The website of the X.500 Directory standard
X.500 Standard status
(Implementors' Guide)
- Introduction
- Standardization Procedures
- X.500 Document Structure
- X.500 docs not freely available
- X.500 docs freely available
- Current ASN.1 modules
- X.500 extension (excl. X.509)
- F.5xx - Tag-based service
- Submit a Defect Report
- Defect Reports
- Draft Tech Corrigenda
- Upcoming Meetings
- Meeting Reports
- A little history
X.509 Related activities
- X.509 extensions
- General on PKI usages
- Key Management
- Wireless PKI (WPKI)
- M2M and PKI
- Cloud Computing and PKI
- Smart Grid and PKI
How to be involved
More Information
Tutorial section 1
X.500 General
- The X.500 Directory
- Relationship with LDAP
- Information structure & names
- X.500 protocols
- X.500 operations
- Navigation
- Directory Schema
- Access Control
- Replication (Shadowing)
- Families of Entries
- Hierarchical Groups
- Mapping Based Searches
- X.500 Service Concept
- X.500 Service Administration
- Data Privacy Protection
- ISSS Schema
Tutorial section 2
X.509 specific
- X.509 Introduction
- Public-key Certificates
- Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- X.509 Extentions
- Protecting a directory
X.509 at work
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X.500 protocols
- The X.500 protocol stacks
- NSAP address format
- Binding and Unbinding
- Carrying payload in the protocol
X.500 protocol stacks
Figure 1 - X.500 Protocol stacks
NSAP address format
Figure 2 - NSAP address format
Figure 3 - NSAP address format for TCP/IP
Binding and Unbinding
Figure 4 - Binding and Unbinding
Carrying payload in the protocol
Figure 5 - Three communications aspects
Figure 6 - Carrying attribute information in the request
Figure 7 - Carrying attribute information in the response
The next page is X.500 (and LDAP) operations.